Ancient anaconda fossils show that the snakes became giants soon after emerging in Miocene South America. Their size has ...

Well before the Europeans arrived, the indigenous people of North America raised cities that rivaled those an ocean away.

Once a powerful pagan symbol of protection and renewal, the Yule Log burned all night to bring luck for the coming year.

Everyone knows about Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, but did you know the U.S. is home to over 130 national monuments just ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that anacondas, the largest snakes in the world, reached their giant size 12.4 million years ...

For millions of years, the land we now call the United States has been home to towering prehistoric beasts, strange sea creatures, and lush ancient forests that no longer exist. Evidence of this ...

Nigeria — Africa's most populous nation, with almost 240 million residents — is experiencing urban growth that few countries ...

Dec 2 - Fencing may be one of the Olympics' oldest events, but three-time Olympian Miles Chamley-Watson says it urgently ...

Poverty Point, a 3,500-year-old earthen mound, is a well-researched UNESCO World Heritage Site, but a pair of studies ...

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

Unlike other giant species, which reached their peak size during the Miocene before dying out and getting replaced by smaller ...

At the beginning of the pestilence and when it ends, there’s always a propensity for rhetoric. ... It is only in the thick of ...